These video metadata viewers support popular video formats like MP4, 3GP, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, FLV, etc. Many of them can be used as audio metadata viewer too as they also support common audio formats like MP2, MP3, FLAC, WMA, etc.

My Favorite Video Metadata Viewer Software:

MediaInfo is one of the best video metadata viewers as it lets you view detailed information as well as export the report to many formats like TXT, CSV, HTML, etc. FFMPEG is another favorite as you can see video information by using a simple command. Moo0 Video Info is also good because it supports a good range of video formats and has an easy-to-use user interface.

MediaInfo

MediaInfo is one of the best video metadata viewer for Windows. It lets you view metadata of one or multiple videos simultaneously. To view video information, you can choose a particular type of view from Basic, Sheet, Tree, HTML, XML, MPEG, PBCore, EBUCore, and FIMS. You can see the following video information in MediaInfo:

It provides an Advanced mode option to view even more detailed information about a video. You cannot only see video information, but also export whole metadata as CSV, TXT, HTML, or XML.

It supports popular video formats including MP4, 3GP, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, etc. It can also be used as audio metadata viewer as it supports a wide range of audio files like WMA, APE, FLAC, MP3, MP2, OGG, etc.

MediaInfo is a feature rich metadata viewer for audio and video files. It provides a toolbar to access main functions easily. Using it, you can create a header file, enable full parsing, view known codecs and parameters, and do more. You can also customize general preferences like interface language, output format, etc.

Moo0 Video Info

Moo0 Video Info is another good video metadata viewer. It lets you drag and drop a video to its interface and view its metadata. This metadata contains information including format (short and long name), bit rate, number of streams, major brand, minor version, compatible brands, album artist, encoder, etc.

It also shows streams’ information which include type (audio or video), codec (name, tag, string, and time base), frame rate (real and average), duration, bit rate, number of frames, number of channels, sample rate, etc. Other information displayed in this freeware are width, height, aspect ratio, pixel format, language, handler name, etc.

Extract Metadata From Video Files Software

Extract Metadata From Video Files Software is free video metadata extractor for Windows. It shows information about multiple tags present in a video file. After you add a video file and click on Start Extracting Metadata option, it will display information in the section below. You can use the slider and view all video tags’ information.

AVInaptic is a good video tag viewer which displays necessary information about a video. It also lets you set credit position by entering frame range to ignore. It provides an interesting feature of extracting audio from imported video and saving it as a MP3 file. It lets you customize interface by modifying color of background, section, field value, and field name, customize font, indent pattern, etc.

AVIcodec

AVIcodec is another free video metadata viewer for Windows. It lets you add one or multiple video files to see their metadata. It displays video information at the bottom of its interface. You can view following types of metadata:

It can be used to view MP3 metadata too. It also lets you enable options, like, context menu, quick analyze, generate header file, scan folders recursively, etc. Additionally, you can change interface language too. It also lets you view codec and filters.

You can also view information about video compression by clicking on the option highlighted in above snapshot. It displays information including aspect ratio, video compression percentage, frame size, frame proportion, effective bits per pixel/frame, etc.

This video metadata viewer supports only AVI video format.

abcAVI Tag Editor is a good video metadata editor as well as viewer. It lets you write various tags to include in a video file. Also, you can preview AVI files in default video player, copy tags to clipboard, and do more. You can customize some interface preferences like language, font, character set, time and size display format, etc.

VLC media player

VLC media player is a popular video player which can be used as a video metadata viewer. It lets you view basic audio and video codec information of a video. To see the information, go to Tools > Media Information and move to Codec tab. The tab displays video codec, audio codec, resolution, frame rate, decoded format, channel, and sample rate.

It lets you view as well as edit video metadata including title, artist, album, year, genre, publisher, encoder, etc. It can be used to view audio codec information in supported audio files as well.

It supports a good range of video formats, such as MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, MOV, WMV, MTS, 3GP, TS, etc. It also supports few audio formats including WMA, MP2, OGG, etc.

Movie Scanner lets you view limited information related to a video. It lets you sort imported files by name, extension, size, or path, search them with titles, and remove all files at once. It is lightweight and portable multimedia tag viewer.